Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

Unknown

520–500 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Exterior, rim fragment with part of head, right eyebrow and eye, and fingers of right hand of wreathed youth to right; part of an inscription [POS]EIDON?; fingers?; rim fragment with head, in profile to left, frontal torso, part of extended right arm, right hip and thigh of wreathed satyr; part of an inscription, OILE?; rim fragment with mouth, neck, handles and shoulders of an amphora; bit of hair, nape of neck, and right shoulder and back of male to right; rim fragment with part of head of wreathed figure to right; skyphos?; right hand; part of an inscription, SA; wall fragment of kylix with part of a draped figure on the interior, and a foot and the end of a tail on the exterior; part of an inscription, ORO?; wall fragment of kylix with toes on the interior, on the exterior, calf and foot of a male to left; right buttock, thigh, and left foot of a crouching male, and the foot of a third figure; part of an inscription, HER[AKLES]?; wall fragment of a kylix with left hand holding a bow?; part of an inscription, THE[SEUS]?; wall fragment with right hand holding an oinochoe; wall fragment with upper arm and part of elbow; three letters of an inscription, EKE?; wall fragment with bit of hair, forehead, right tear duct, nose, mouth and extended arm of youth to left

Artist

Unknown

Date

520–500 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011